Franceska

A documentary. In 1945, an SS officer was shot by a Jewish woman near the gas chamber in Auschwitz. It is said that the act of heroism was done by Francesca Mann, a Jewish dancer from Warsaw. This act of heroism did not receive the resonance it deserved, perhaps because of the rumors that Francesca was an accomplice. The multitude of versions gave birth to a myth, built on a grain of truth. Francesca left behind almost nothing, just a few photos, a few press articles about her appearances in Warsaw before the warת and an abundance of different and contradictory testimonies about her conduct during the war. The myth takes on and unfolds in form according to the age and its world. A balladeer/ dancer/ stripper/ partner, what of all these was she?